Deification in the Latin Patristic Tradition
ISBN: 9780813231433
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Catholic University of America Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Deification (Christianity); Christian literature Early -- Latin authors -- History and criticism;

It has become a commonplace to say that the Latin Fathers did not really hold a doctrine of deification. Indeed, it is often asserted that Western theologians have neglected this teaching, that their occasional references to it are borrowed from the Greeks, and that the Latins have generally reduced the rich biblical and Greek Patristic understanding of salvation to a narrow view of redemption. The essays in this volume challenge this common interpretation by exploring, often for the first time, the role this doctrine plays in a range of Latin Patristic authors.


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